AI and data leader. Founder of Auraa.Africa, co-founder of Kudoti, AI Lead at YIEDI, and the artist behind South Africa's first AI-generated Amapiano album.
Gift Lubele is a South African AI and data analytics leader from Tembisa, working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and African creative culture. He is the founder of Auraa.Africa — the AI music platform behind South Africa's first AI-generated Amapiano album — and a co-founder of Kudoti, an award-winning waste-tech company that has tracked more than 2 million kilograms of recyclable material across the continent.
He currently serves as AI Lead at YIEDI (Youth Innovation Entrepreneurship Design Institute), where he helps shape enterprise- and supplier-development programs through AI and data. He is a TEDx speaker, a contributor to Leadership magazine, and an active member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Johannesburg Hub.
“Africa shouldn’t import its AI future — we should build it.”